Re: Making auto-mode-alist override interpreter-mode-alist

[Francis Devereux]

On 22 Jul 2009, at 18:06, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Francis Devereux<francis@devrx.org>  
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have derived a mode from python-mode that has some settings for my
> > company's Python coding style.  I want to use this mode (bright- 
> > python-mode)
> > for .py files in certain directories but use the default python- 
> > mode for all
> > other .py files.
> >
> > I have the following in my auto-mode-alist:
> > (set-variable 'auto-mode-alist
> >          (append '(
> > ...
> >            ("/Users/francis/Code/Bright/.*\\.py$" . bright-python- 
> > mode)
> > ...
> >            ) auto-mode-alist))
> >
> > This works for most files, but not for those whose first line is
> > #!/usr/bin/python.  They always open in python-mode, regardless of  
> > the
> > directory that they are in.  I think that this is happening because
> > interpreter-mode-alist is overriding auto-mode-alist.  Is there any  
> > way to
> > make auto-mode-alist have priority over interpreter-mode-alist?
>
> You can defadvice python-mode instead of modifying the lists. There is
> nothing magic about major mode functions. They are just functions that
> set up for editing in the buffer.

I have now solved my problem by defadvicing python-mode instead of  
defining a major mode.

Thanks for the advice ;-)

Francis